Current college students and professionals who want a competitive edge can "enlist" in the Penn State Berks Coding Bootcamp. This new summer program will provide in-depth training in JAVA programming with the goal of helping current college students get ahead in their studies and eventually the job market, while giving professionals a competitive advantage in their careers. Penn State Berks is the only college in Berks County to offer such a program.
In the fifth annual George J. Losoncy Lecture in Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Paul Mantica, a world-renowned nuclear physical chemist and the Deputy Project Manager of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a new scientific user facility for nuclear science at Michigan State University, will give a lecture titled "Facility for Rare Isotope Beams: Current Construction Status and Future Science Opportunities" on Friday, April 8, 2016, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Penn State Berks will participate in Penn State's first Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Thun Library, room 145. This University-wide summit aims to educate participants about OER, share updates from the provost-charged OER task force, and showcase Penn State faculty examples of OER in practice.
Sara Critchfield, founding Editorial Director of Upworthy, will present a lecture titled "Good Ideas Going Viral" on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Multi-Purpose Room. This lecture is free and open to the public.
During the weekend of Feb. 19-21, 2016, the Berks benefitting THON student group raised an impressive $51,662 toward the overall total, and ranked third among Penn State campuses in fundraising. In total, THON raised $9.8 million for the Four Diamonds Fund.
Short for the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, THON is the 46-hour, no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon to benefit the Four Diamonds Fund, which supports families battling pediatric cancer.
The Penn State Berks Kinesiology department will lend their expertise to UGI Energy Services for their first Health/Wellness and Small Business Fair on Thursday, March 10, 2016, from 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at their headquarters, located at One Meridian Boulevard, Wyomissing, PA.
Faculty and student members of the Penn State Berks Kinesiology Department will offer tests and measurements, followed by a complete review and interpretation of all results, which will be discussed with the employee.
Penn State Berks will host the first "Leadership & Education" conference on Saturday, April 9, 2016. The leadership conference will provide a dynamic, interactive forum for values-based, purpose-driven, and applied leadership development focusing on eight majors at Penn State Berks. This conference will be coordinated, developed, and administered by students, in collaboration with faculty.
In Rosewater: An Iranian Odyssey, Maziar Bahari tells the story that was the inspiration for his riveting memoir, Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival and Rosewater, the 2014 film directed by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium, Penn State Berks. It is free and open to the public.
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery will present the exhibition Forsyth and Farrell from March 17-April 21, 2016. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 17, at 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
This year's Alternative Spring Break will take a group of ten Penn State Berks students, along with two staff members, to Belfast, Ireland, where they will spend the week of March 5-13, 2016, working on initiatives related to hunger and homelessness.